Chapter 375
"Anxi Chamber of Commerce"
"Is what Ye Zhongcheng said true or false? Did he really hold the Andong Chamber of Commerce?"
"I heard from the Hu merchants who were in Chang'an that the Anton Chamber of Commerce is amazing. They even have a cabinet called Anton Bank. They issue flying money. Just a piece of paper can pass the world. Even in Kucha, they can use that paper to exchange for copper coins and silk."
"You are so good at making money, have such skills?"
The group relationship was mobilized by Ye Chang for a moment, and everyone was talking about it and exchanging opinions with each other. The more they talked, the more widely the matter about Ye Chang hosting the Anton Chamber of Commerce was spread and more legendary. Especially those noble girls in Chang'an City supported Ye Chang's plan to open the border, and each took out their private money and dowry to make up gold to help Ye Chang, which was a bit more romantic.
When everyone looked at Ye Chang again, the suspicion and suspicion in their eyes disappeared, and replaced by a kind of fanaticism about the shiny copper coins. During the Tang Dynasty, there was not as many vulgarities as the later generations of people talking about benevolence and righteousness. Everyone came to the border thousands of miles to defend the border, just to gain wealth? Ye Chang was both the great gubernatorial capital of Anxi and had the ability to make money. Wouldn't it be expected to follow him?
Especially those military generals who occupied the military farm, after thinking, they didn't say that occupying the military farm was illegal or illegal, and they collected thousands of stones of grain a year, and they only sold them into copper coins for dozens of stakes. How could they compare to the income that Ye Chang might have obtained from the Anxi Chamber of Commerce if he obeyed Ye Chang?
"I am just a first time, and everyone may doubt that what I say is untrue. As far as I know, there are at least a few items in Anxi, far better than Liaodong. One is Jinshan. Why is Jinshan named? Because gold can be picked, there are many private pickers now, and there are few controls. The first thing I do is to earn this Jinshan to manage the Anxi Chamber of Commerce; the second climate is suitable for cotton production. Although cotton is not as valuable as a few years ago, it is also profitable. If you have cotton, you can weave cotton. Third, you can smelter steel. The name of Kucha steel has long been promoted in the Western Regions, and I have the method of making steel, which is even better than Kucha steel. Fourth, the transportation is convenient and suitable for trade. Since ancient times, merchants and travelers have traveled between Anxi, and goods are connected between China and abroad. In the meantime, countless people are rich and can rival the country. Today, we guard this important business road, so how can we return empty-handed? Fifth, we should grazing, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the water and grass are abundant, and grazing cattle, horses, sheep and pigs can make a lot of profit..."
Ye Chang said one by one, there were actually not many new things, but they all combined with the facts in Anxi. Before, these soldiers did not know how to manage, so they could only live in Baoshan. Now, when Ye Chang said it, they couldn't help but feel excited, and they only felt that Ye Chang's words were very reasonable.
Wei Boyu next to him woke up from the fanatical atmosphere at this time. Seeing Ye Chang talking, he was almost impressed. After Ye Chang finished speaking, all the soldiers cheered, their voices went straight to the sky, which shocked the soldiers of the Tianwei Army outside the camp, and their faces changed one by one.
"Wei Boyu, what are you waiting for? Take people there and search Bi Sichen's house for me." Ye Chang turned to Wei Boyu again.
"Ye Zhongcheng said that the military spirit has been fully settled. Even if there are two Bi Sichen's confidants, they can't do anything at this time. They have to worry even more whether they will treat Bi Sichen as their fellow party members and be searched together... I have to do things carefully. If I do it beautifully, I will naturally not worry about wealth."
Wei Boyu, who had made up his mind, responded loudly and then took the people away. He has been in the army for quite some time, so he has many close friends. In a blink of an eye, more than a hundred people followed him.
"Wei Boyu has gone to do business. Who can use it for me?" Ye Chang said again.
A man with a purple beard raised, and he shouted: "Wei Boyu is just a noble man, how can he be better than me? I am willing to serve the Chief Executive?"
His accent had a clear Huyin, and when he came out, everyone was solemn, quieter than Wei Boyu just now, and everyone nodded, proving that he was indeed a person whom everyone believed. Ye Chang secretly praised him, looked him up and down, and saw that his appearance was quite different from the Han people, and said with a smile: "Would you, Hu'er, you know that you are serving China, who is your name?"
"Sir, Bai Xiaode is the same." This man said excitedly: "The emperor does not regard the Hu people as the exception, selects the general, breaks the formation and seizes the city. Why is the Chief Secretary underestimated the Hu people?"
Ye Chang was stunned. He did feel a little distrustful of the Hufanyi. He heard Bai Xiaode’s criticism and felt a little frightened. This is Anxi. Although there are many Han people, Hu people account for most of them. If the Hu people cannot be appointed, it will be very difficult for him to gain a foothold here.
Thinking of this, he bowed: "It is my fault that I am despising the heroes, and I should apologize to you. Although you are a Hu person, you are sincere to the Han people. I should not underestimate you."
He solemnly admitted his mistake, and everyone looked at each other, but felt that Ye Zhongcheng was good at accepting words and being humble and easy-going, and even more happy. Ye Chang summoned Bai Xiaode and said, "I came this time, so I was very anxious. I didn't bring my personal soldiers, so I was afraid that it would be taken by the traitors, so I sent people to Saiye first and dispatched the Tianwei army to follow him. Now that I have you, I have no worries, so I will let the Tianwei army station Saiye. But they are running around and working very hard. You should follow our military orders to go and find camps elsewhere to settle down and set off for three days. Yang'er, go with General Bai to greet him.
Wang Yang'er was stunned. If he followed him out, Shanzhi would be left beside Ye Chang. But Ye Chang's eyes swept over, he could only respond and go out with Bai Xiaode.
"The rest of the soldiers ordered the kitchen to kill lambs and cook meat. Today, the army cannot ban wine, but those who are drunk are prohibited from leaving the camp," Ye Chang said again.
The soldiers even cheered, and they all said that this Ye Zhongcheng could be a human being.
Li Sheng was waiting outside with the 500-day Wei army. After seeing Ye Chang enter the barracks for a long time, there were noises coming from time to time, but then cheers came out. After a while, a young general came out excitedly with more than 100 people, ignored them and left straight. He originally wanted to stop someone to ask about the situation inside, but when he thought of Ye Chang's warning that he would not allow him to act rashly, he hesitated again.
After a while, Wang Yang'er was leading more than ten soldiers out. The leader of the soldier had a purple beard with a ring-eye and purple beard, which was very majestic. Wang Yang'er was originally extremely powerful, but in terms of appearance, he was not as good as this person.
"Yang'er, what's the situation inside?" he asked nervously.
"Very good, Ye Zhongcheng has bought everyone here." Wang Yang'er said with a lip.
He felt a little unhappy. He was a brave general, and he was very particular about going in and out of three times. Ye Chang arrived at the Anxi military camp. With just a few words and some promises, he impressed the Anxi army. He couldn't understand this ability, so he could only think that Ye Chang was waving Kaiyuan Tongbao and bought all the Anxi army.
Bai Xiaode's face turned slightly red, Wang Yang'er was mean, but he was very sharp. However, he also had his own thoughts. Although he was brave, he was not a reckless person. Ye Chang specifically asked him to come out to entertain Tianwei Army, which clearly valued this army very much, so he smiled and said, "Ye Zhongcheng said that you have worked hard and made contributions from afar. You must reward you. Now you are preparing wine and meat, and you have also asked me to set up a barracks. Please rest for a while."
Li Sheng looked at him and couldn't feel any more distorted: Ye Chang only brought two people in, how could he solve the problem?
These Anxi troops were still on the verge of mutiny just now
Not only did he not understand, but Li Wan in the distance also couldn't figure out what was going on. He just felt that Ye Chang was like a magician in Tochar, with a hand that turned the situation around and changed.
After he separated from Ye Chang in the restaurant, he was still concerned about this matter. First, Bi Sichen led his troops to pursue him, but he was worried at that time. As a result, Bi Sidao took a hundred people out and was captured by Ye Chang without shooting an arrow. Moreover, Tianwei Army appeared beside Ye Chang, which made Li Wan understand that Ye Chang was not confident of coming here.
But Ye Chang led the 500-day Wei army and dared to break into the military camp of thousands of Anxi Army. After that, he only brought three people and went deep into the military camp full of hostility, which made Li Wan frightened and secretly admired. Not to mention anything else, Ye Chang deserved the word "being brave". He originally thought about how to rescue Ye Chang from the military camp and whether to ask Cheng Qianli, but in the blink of an eye, the matter was solved.
He had too many questions in his heart, so he came over at this moment, grabbed a soldier in Tianwei and said, "Brother, I have something to ask you for advice."
"My husband, please tell me." The Wei army soldier was a veteran that day and said with a smile when he heard this.
"You Tianweijun and Ye Zhongcheng?"
When he asked, he was not far from Li Sheng and Bai Xiaode, and Bai Xiaode also pricked up his ears and listened. The veteran slapped his legs and said, "Is it just friendship?"
"oh?"
"I don't know how many people's lives were saved by Ye Zhongcheng," the veteran said in a shocking voice: "I don't know how many brothers who left the army went to join Ye Zhongcheng, and now they are all rich.
After hearing what he said, Li Wan and Bai Xiaode felt inexplicable, but Li Sheng coughed, a little embarrassed.
When he first arrived at Tianwei Army, he had a bad impression of Ye Chang. For this reason, he was once excluded by Tianwei Army. Therefore, he personally experienced Ye Chang's reputation in this army.
The Tianwei Army was originally a military commander of the Longyou Jiedu. When Ye Chang first joined the army, he rushed to Hequ, Longyou and defeated Quanrong, so he had friendship with this army. More importantly, he improved the military medical system in the army, implemented systems such as liquor disinfection, sanitation and epidemic prevention, and used the Quanrong people as human test subjects, saving many lives of wounded soldiers. Geshuhan's battle to attack Shibao City, many casualties were injured, but with Ye Chang's improved military medical system, he saved the lives of thousands of injured soldiers. These soldiers naturally attributed it to Ye Chang.
Then Ye Chang recruited disabled old orphans in the army, and did not hesitate to conflict with Wei Jian's son for them. Since then, most of the people who left the Tianwei army have arrived in Liaodong. The former friendship and future retirement opportunities have made Tianwei army not regard Ye Chang as an outsider.
"It turns out that this military doctor system was actually built by Ye Zhongcheng." After hearing this, Bai Xiaode couldn't help but slapped his thighs, his eyes shining: "If you said earlier, how could Ye Zhongcheng run an Anxi Chamber of Commerce? Just this one, we must obey Ye Zhongcheng's orders."
The words were spoken beautifully and everyone started to laugh.
At this time, Ye Chang was in the military camp and was receiving the salutes of the soldiers. He comforted them one by one. In just a moment, he controlled the heads of the big and small military heads. After the soldiers dispersed, they all excitedly discussed the changes that Ye Chang might bring. At this moment, they heard from outside that the deputy captain of Anxi, Cheng Qianli, was here.
Ye Chang smiled. He was the Great Protector of Anxi, and Cheng Qianli was the Deputy Protector. Judging from his reputation, Cheng Qianli was his deputy. However, Cheng Qianli had never come to see him these days. Obviously, Cheng Qianli was very afraid of Gao Xianzhi.
He heard that Gao Xianzhi commented on Cheng Qianli as "like a man's face and like a woman's heart". Although he was unavoidable, it can be seen that Cheng Qianli was indeed a little troubled by trivial matters and could not make a decision immediately.
"Please come and meet." He ordered: "All the generals greet me."
The military generals surrounding him were a little surprised. Ye Chang first killed Zheng Dequan and tied up Bi Sichen today. He was cruel and did not leave any face for Gao Xianzhi, but he respected this deputy guardian of Cheng Qianli.
When Ye Chang arrived at the gate of the Central Army camp, he saw Cheng Qianli coming hurriedly with dozens of personal soldiers. He stood up and looked at each other with a smile.
Cheng Qianli saw him from afar, rushed forward and then knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Chen Qianli, deputy captain of Anxi, pays homage to the Chief Executive"
Seeing that he was very respectful in his rituals, Ye Chang knew that what he did in the military camp had already reached his ears. He then quickly walked forward and helped him up: "Mr. Cheng doesn't have to be too polite. Come on, I'm asking Mr. Cheng to discuss with you."
After Cheng Qianli stood up, he suddenly jumped when he heard what he said. He glanced at Ye Chang quietly and saw that almost all the military heads left by Gao Xianzhi in Kucha were now following Ye Chang. His attitude towards Ye Chang was even more respectful than to Gao Xianzhi. He sighed in his heart: It turns out that although Gao Gong is a master, he may not be his opponent when he meets this son.
He knew very well how to be an official. The first priority of military generals like them in the border control system was not to be able to fight, but to have enough connections in the court. Gao Xianzhi was leaning on Gao Lishi, and Geshuhan now has a close relationship with Yang Zhao. Cheng Qianli has enough credit in Anxi, but he did not compete for Gao Xianzhi when he fought for the Anxi Jiedushi because there was no support from the court.
The young chief official in front of him was a person who almost competed with Gao Lishi and Yang Zhao. He was also an indispensable important official in the heart of the emperor. Therefore, although he was domineering and acted boldly on the frontier, the emperor could only suppress his official title and lead him to run around, but he never said that he would be held accountable.
"I heard that Bi Sichen was in trouble and wanted to harm the Chief Secretary, but I got the news too late and failed to come in time. I also asked the Chief Secretary for forgiveness. Bi Sichen has been entrenched in the army for a long time, so I must have a party member. I am willing to investigate it for the Chief Secretary to eliminate future troubles," Cheng Qianli said.
This is to draw a clear line with Bi Sichen and to express loyalty to Ye Chang. Ye Chang laughed and said, "Bi Sichen is a general in the army. I am not easy to punish him and will be escorted back to the capital. He is the leader of the crime, but the rest are just coerced by him and there is no need to pursue it. Moreover, the military situation is urgent now, and I rely on Mr. Cheng, so I don't have to be distracted by such trivial matters."
Chapter completed!